Hamlet. For many this word may invoke memories of tedious readings of the play in high school. Others may only know the word in association with a bearded Mel Gibson who is visited by his father’s ...

October 27, 2000, marked the start of a new era in Austin dance. Stephen Mills, then freshly anointed as artistic director of Ballet Austin, premiered a full-length dance. This time, it was not a ...

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It was a duel to the death for their characters, Hamlet and Laertes, in the final scene of Stephen Mills’ “Hamlet,” a contemporary ballet adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. The end of this duel is also ...

Ballet is often about the intersection of classic stories and instantly recognizable classical music. But there's an undeniable daring velocity in bringing together Shakespeare's text sans prose and ...

In Stephen Mills’ ballet version of “Hamlet,” the titular character is a man of multiple dimensions. While slowly slipping into madness, the line between reality and the imagined becomes blurred; ...